# exact name of a property

Brack (slayer@kaiwan.com)
Thu, 18 Apr 1996 15:31:20 PDT

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    At 05:58 PM 4/18/96 -0400, Seth I. Rich wrote:
    >>Is there a way to get the exact name of a property? I know property matching
    >>doesn't matter about the case, but I'm looking for a way to get the exact
    >>name that was on the property.
    >
    >Gather 'round while Seth violates the Prime Directive and posts without
    >verifying that the code works:
    >
    >  to find the real name of 'prop' on object 'o' try
    >    properties(o)[prop in properties(o)]
    >  (which could be optimized)
    >
    >Seth / Bb

    that works, if it's wiz-owned, I already had that in my $bf_property_info().
    if it's an object that's not readable and the verb isn't wizardly, it bombs.